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Letter: Nose jobs

Published 3 August 2002

From Carlos Lima, Egas Moniz Hospital

You report that Australian researchers have started testing a treatment in which nerve cells from the nose are injected into the spines of people suffering from paralysis (13 July, p 18).

For more than a year a team from the Egas Moniz Hospital in Lisbon has been treating spinal cord injury patients with grafts from the olfactory mucosa.

Lisbon, Portugal

Issue no. 2354 published 3 August 2002

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